Using The Control Panel - Epson Stylus Color 900 Manual

Never turn off the
printer while the
P power light is
flashing, unless the
printer hasn't moved
or made any noise for
more than 5 minutes.
Maintenance and Transportation
6 Follow the instructions on the screen to clean the print head. Cleaning
takes a couple minutes, during which the printer makes some noise
and the P power light flashes.
When the Ppower light stops flashing, run a nozzle check to test the
results and reset the cleaning cycle.
7 Make sure paper is loaded in the printer and click Print nozzle check
pattern (Windows) or Confirmation (Macintosh). Then click Next. The
nozzle check pattern prints on your printer; see
Check Pattern for details.
8 If the nozzle check pattern is complete, click Finish.
If the pattern is missing dots, click Clean to run another cleaning cycle.
If you don't see any improvement after cleaning two or three times,
check the print quality solutions in

Using the Control Panel

Follow these steps to clean the print head:
1 Make sure the printer is turned on and not printing, and that both
the B black and A color ink out lights are off.
2 Press the R cleaning button and hold it down for three seconds.
Cleaning takes a couple minutes, during which the printer makes some
noise and the P power light flashes.
Examining the Nozzle
Improving Print Quality.
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